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title: "‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza"
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**Good piece on Lavender’s use [+972 Magazine](https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/)**

> Formally, the Lavender system is designed to mark all suspected operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including low-ranking ones, as potential bombing targets.
> 
> The sources told +972 and Local Call that, **during the first weeks of the war, the army almost completely relied on Lavender,** which clocked as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants — and their homes — for possible air strikes.During the early stages of the war, **the** **army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based.**
> 
> One source stated that **human personnel often served only as a 
> “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions**, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is  male. This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded  as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all.
> 
> **Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity.**

**What I’ve noticed is the use of Lavender is being presented as the cause for the excessive civilian casualties- But it’s not the AI to blame it’s Israel’s, in my opinion, intentional goal to cause mass civilian casualties.**

**Read the entire piece at the opening link**